lees

6 definitions found

lees - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lee \Lee\, n.; pl. Lees (l[=e]z). [F. lie, perh. fr. L. levare
     to lift up, raise. Cf. Lever.]
     That which settles at the bottom, as of a cask of liquor
     (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; -- used now only in the plural.
     [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] "The lees of
     wine." --Holland.
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           A thousand demons lurk within the lee.   --Young.
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           The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
           Is left this vault to brag of.           --Shak.
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  Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]z), n. pl.
     Dregs. See 2d Lee.
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  Lees \Lees\ (l[=e]s), n.
     A leash. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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lees - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lees
      n 1: the sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage

lees - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Lees
  (Heb. shemarim), from a word meaning to keep or preserve. It was
  applied to "lees" from the custom of allowing wine to stand on
  the lees that it might thereby be better preserved (Isa. 25:6).
  "Men settled on their lees" (Zeph. 1:12) are men "hardened or
  crusted." The image is derived from the crust formed at the
  bottom of wines long left undisturbed (Jer. 48:11). The effect
  of wealthy undisturbed ease on the ungodly is hardening. They
  become stupidly secure (comp. Ps. 55:19; Amos 6:1). To drink the
  lees (Ps. 75:8) denotes severe suffering.

lees - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "lees":
     alluvion, alluvium, ash, bones, chaff, cinder, clinker, culm,
     deadwood, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dishwater, draff, dregs,
     dross, dust, ember, feces, filings, froth, garbage, gash, grounds,
     hogwash, husks, leavings, loess, moraine, offal, offscourings,
     offscum, orts, parings, potsherds, precipitate, precipitation,
     rags, raspings, refuse, scoria, scourings, scrap iron, scraps,
     scum, sediment, settlings, shards, shavings, silt, sinter, slack,
     slag, slop, slops, smut, soot, stubble, sublimate, sweepings,
     swill, tares, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, weeds